Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics: Part II. Fibre Bundles, Topology and Gauge Fields (Paperback)

Fibre bundles and connections.- Linear connections and Riemannian geometry.- Homotopy theory of principal fibre bundles. Classification.- Cohomology theory of fibre bundles. Characteristic classes.- Clifford algebras, spin structures and Dirac operators.- The Yang-Mills equation.- Matter fields and model building.- The gauge orbit space.- Elements of quantum gauge theory.- A Field restriction and field extension.- B The Conformal Group of the 4-sphere.- C Simple Lie algebras. Root diagrams.- D z -function regularization.- E K-theory and index bundles.- F Determinant line bundles.- G Eilenberg-MacLane spaces.- References. Index.